“Why on earth (or Mars) did Musk want to own this platform that has been rife with internal chaos and corporate backstabbing since its founding?”
that he was “giving serious thought” to building his own social media network, where free speech would be the central thesis of the platform. But while this was all going on, Musk had quietly been buying up shares of Twitter. On April 4, Twitterthat noted Musk now owned 9.2 percent of Twitter, and that he was the largest personal shareholder of the company. From there, things moved more chaotically and expeditiously than almost any hostile takeover in corporate history.
One person I spoke to who is close to Musk speculated that he had not originally set out to buy the company last month when he began purchasing Twitter stock, and that he had fully intended to join the board of Twitter with the hopes that he could effect change at the social network. But along the way, something happened that had set him off—perhaps, this person speculated, he was told that he would not be able to tweet critically of Twitter if he was a board member there.
Perhaps one of the most peculiar parts of the past few weeks was the way Musk and the former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, were interacting. on Twitter, during the negotiations, even though Dorsey still sits on the board. Dorsey, who is currently surfing in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, took to the social platform to blame the company’s stagnation and problems on. It was Dorsey’s policy decisions that led to people being ejected from Twitter, including Donald J. Trump.
Which brings us back to the ever-looming question everyone is wondering about right now. If this is, indeed, an issue of free speech, it’s now going to fall to Musk to decide who gets to be on Twitter and who doesn’t. Years ago, Twitter employees used to say that they simply sold a microphone for people to speak into, and it wasn’t up to them to decide what people said into that microphone. The company that sells pens and pencils doesn’t police what people write with those tools.
It’s now going to be up to Musk to decide if there are any lines that can and cannot be crossed, or if it’s just unmitigated free speech. Anything goes. Say what you want, true or false, harmful or not. It’s highly likely based on Musk’s beliefs that he will indeed let Trump back on the platform, and when he does, it will be up to Musk to decide if Trump should be allowed to lie that the election was stolen by Biden.
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